Not a request for recs, I swear.

[dira]

terrio and I were talking last night about the tragedy that is fanon!Rodney McKay's childhood--rivalled, she pointed out, only by fanon!John Sheppard's.

Oh, I don't know, I said. Fanon!Daniel Jackson and fanon!Xander Harris could give both of them a run for their money.

Hmmm, I said a little later. Surely there is a way to determine ~empirically~ who fandom has bestowed with the most horrible fanon!childhood! How about a poll?

But I can't do an ~authoritative~ poll until I have had some help coming up with contestants, so, fandom, tell me: who has the worst fanon!childhood?

To be clear: this is neither about who has had, say, for instance, a canonical childhood bad enough to turn him into a canonical serial killer, Dexter, nor about the fact that one time you read this one story where it turned out that the Kents belonged to a Satanic cult that tortured young Clark over and over and he developed multiple personalities in response so that while Clark/Superman is totally well-adjusted after an idyllic Kansas childhood, Kal-El is a time bomb of psychotic rage.

Uh, not that that story exists. As far as I know.

Anyway: I'm looking for the general trend of fanonical horrible childhoods, not canon or outlying crackfic/evil mirrorverse, is what I am saying. Help?


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Comments

[kuwdora]

I cannot, for the life of me, read this entry and the comments without laughing my ass off.

[dira]

What, no fanon horrible childhood for Sylar? :D

[kuwdora]

Honey, I may write fic, make vids and do the squee thing for the show, but I try my damndest not to have anything to do with Heroes fandom if at all possible because it just makes my soul ache in a way that I didn't think was possible.

I think the closest thing I can recall from fanon is that Gabriel was a wee virginal choir boy and blah blah his mommy being crazy religious, blah blah he was socially awkward and I dunno if it was ever fanon that he was physically or emotionally abused by the crazy mom or crazy dad. I'm sure someone made something up but I stayed far, far away from them.

Cause. There are sincere people in Heroes fandom who think that Sylar is a fluffy fucking bunny who wouldn't actually hurt Claire (Or Mohinder. Or Peter or *insert a person's preference*) and is really truly in love with her and would never, ever rape anyone because he knows rape is bad and oh, god, he would never do anything to hurt a woman like that or anyone else.

*twitch*

*edit* to say: Okay this is not everyone in Heroes fandom but there are a lot of... questionable fen. I miss the days when people were still writing lovely IC domestic Matt/Mohinder stuff. sigh.

[dira]

Understood, understood. Some fandoms are just like that. I will, uh, hold off on putting Sylar on the list unless I get a suggestion elsewhere.

And, ahahahaha, BEST ICON EVER OMG.

[celli]

amen, sister.